New Square sex offender's brother accused of molesting boy for years

9:55 PM,
Jan. 17, 2014

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The 55-year-old brother of a convicted sex offender from New Square was arrested Friday on accusations he molested a young boy repeatedly over five years, police said.

Moshe Menachem Taubenfeld, 55, an educator like his younger brother Herschel, and the father of 20 children, was charged with a felony for alleged sexual abuse starting Sept. 11, 2001, when the preteen boy came to him seeking comfort after the terrorist attacks.

"I went to his house and he told me 'I'll give you love, I care about you,' " the alleged victim, Laiby, recalled Friday to The Journal News. He said Taubenfeld, a family ...